And the Cheyenne grabbed it from the Kiowa, from what I read today.
That’s true. And that only covers the last 400 years so. But we’re lead to believe Indian history began with the arrival of Europeans and prior to that it was all peaceful and harmonious.
Interestingly enough, recent archeological findings suggest that the first people to reach the Americas may have been Europeans. Still controversial, the Solutrean hypothesis argues for an Atlantic migration of the Solutreans peoples (who inhabited the region of modern France) approximately 20,000 years ago - some 10,000 years earlier than Asian migrations. This is based on the fact that the oldest known archeological sites are on the east coast, not the west coast as one would expect from an Asian migration. In addition, there are striking similarities between the arrow making technology of the Solutreans and that found later in the Americas.
I thought we were taught that the native peoples didn’t have a concept of land ownership.??